Clark inspires Australia victory

Stuart Clark produced a devastating display with the ball to inspire Australia to victory in the First Test against West Indies on Monday.

Clark claimed four wickets on the final day - three in the first session - as the tourists bowled the Windies out for 191 to seal a 95-run victory.

Brett Lee and Stuart MacGill chipped in with two apiece, the veteran spinner cleaning up the tail, but it was Clark who really shone as he finished with second-innings figures of five for 32.

The home side lost three wickets for just eight runs to slip from 74 for three to 82 for six at one stage, and although Denesh Ramdin (36) and Darren Sammy (35) offered some stubborn resistance with a seventh-wicket partnership of 67, the damage had already been done.

Clark made the early inroads by dismissing Ramnaresh Sarwan and Devon Smith, with neither batsman able to build significantly on their overnight scores.

Starting the day on 46 for one, needing 241 runs to win, the Windies lost Sarwan for 12 in just the third over of the day when a leading edge was brilliantly held after a spot of juggling by Andrew Symonds.

And Smith followed for 28 four overs later, trapped plumb in front as he shouldered arms to an inswinging Clark delivery.

Runako Morton's time at the crease was also short-lived as he managed just nine before he fell lbw to a vicious inswinger from Lee.

Dwayne Bravo became Clark's third wicket of the morning and Shivnarine Chanderpaul, whose first-innings century, compiled after he had been flattened by a Lee bouncer, had given the Windies hope of victory, could not repeat the feat this time as he was caught and bowled by Lee.

Ramdin and Sammy halted the steady flow of wickets with some determined batting, but Ramdin was eventually run out and Clark trapped Sammy lbw before MacGill claimed the final two wickets of Daren Powell (27) and Amit Jaggernauth, for a duck, in successive balls to seal victory.